LARAMIE, Wyo. -- The double-overtime scare against Texas Southern was supposed to be a wake-up call for No. 19 Colorado.

But the Buffs hit the snooze button during the second half of Saturday night's 76-69 loss at Wyoming.

After taking a two-point lead into the halftime locker room, CU allowed the Cowboys to score 50 points and shoot 51.9 percent from the field.

Head coach Tad Boyle watched in disgust as Leonard Washington "beasted" the Buffs for the second consecutive year.

More alarming than the power forward's 22 points and seven rebounds was the image of Washington diving for a loose ball in the paint and calling a timeout to give Wyoming a key possession with the game in the balance.

"And we've got five Colorado Buffaloes bending over, standing at the waist trying to get it. He just out scrapped us," Boyle lamented. "That was the epitome of why the Wyoming Cowboys won, and why the Colorado Buffaloes lost."

It was the first time all season the opponent has shot a higher percentage from the field than CU, which made 24 of 58 field goals (41.4 percent).

Askia Booker, who was averaging a team-high 16.8 points, finished with six points on 2-for-13 shooting. Josh Scott (1-for-5, five points) and Sabatino Chen (0-for-2, no points) also struggled before fouling out.

"By not playing together, we've got guys that want to try and do it by themselves," Boyle said. "So they try to take it upon themselves to make shots. When those shots aren't going in and we're not guarding, we're going to get beat.

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"We have guys that have to change their identity from offensive players to defensive players."

CU's perfect November was not ruined by a road loss on the first day of December. Winning the Charleston Classic is still going to look good on the postseason résumé in March, especially the win over Baylor (the Bears snapped Kentucky's 54-game winning streak at Rupp Arena on Saturday).

The Buffs (6-1) will have to return to form, however, with Colorado State visiting Boulder on Wednesday and a road trip to No. 10 Kansas next Saturday.

After Spencer Dinwiddie (24 Points) and Andre Roberson (16 points), CU's third leading scorer against Wyoming was Xavier Talton (seven points), who did all of his damage in the final moments when the upset was already a foregone conclusion.

"We're much better than the team that we played," Dinwiddie said. "Not to take anything away from them, but we lost it."

The visitors clearly let the officials bother them at the Arena-Auditorium as CU made 12 of 15 free throws and Wyoming finished 21 of 33 at the line.

Boyle didn't like the body language he was reading from the Buffs after every whistle.

CU players didn't complain when they were awarded 44 free throws and the visitors took 20 in the 85-80 victory over Texas Southern at the Coors Events Center.

"Guess what? You go on the road and you're not going to get calls. You go on the road and it's going to be 27 (CU fouls) to 13 (Wyoming fouls). It's going to happen," Boyle said. "We've got to figure out a way to overcome that. They can get frustrated all they want and (complain) about it all they want, it doesn't change things.

"The way you do that is with mental toughness."

History suggests Boyle's team will learn from its first defeat and get better as the season wears on.

Two years ago, the Buffs rebounded from road losses to Georgia, San Francisco and Harvard to finish fifth in the Big 12 and make it to the NIT semifinals.

Last season, the Buffs were 5-4 after a home loss to Wyoming before regrouping and eventually winning the Pac-12 Tournament and an NCAA Tournament game.

The Coors Events Center is expected to be sold out on Wednesday when the Rams visit.

"They're probably going to be top 25 now, we might or might not be top 25 still," Dinwiddie said of 6-0 CSU. "It's at our place, they beat us last year by one, they rushed the court, they're our biggest rival, you can't really set the stage any higher than it already was. ...

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